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Overview

This free roundtable presented by NCHC's Diversity and Inclusion Committee will provide a virtual space for NCHC members to meet and discuss! The Diversity and Inclusion Roundtables aim to facilitate discussion and open sharing of experiences and observations about justice-focused discourses in the current national climate. This discussion will focus on how honors colleges and programs are responding to legislation regarding Critical Race Theory.

All NCHC professionals

Facilitator

David Jones, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Dr. David Jones is a Professor of English, Interim Chair of the History Department, and former Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. He has formerly served on the Board of Directors for NCHC and continues to serve as a Co-Chair for NCHC’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. His primary research interests include literary works and long-term cultural impacts of Black Power, the Black Arts Movement, and Black popular music in the 20th century. Dr. Jones’ recent research has focused on pedagogy for teaching sensitive and controversial issues in the classroom, and he will pursue those interests in 2023-4 as a visiting scholar for the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. In honors, Dr. Jones’s recent courses include Politics and Culture in the Age of Trump; 2020: a Cultural Studies Retrospective; and Analytical Thinking about Social Issues. He looks forward to a lively and informative conversation with colleagues across the country during our session on CRT.